Hi, everyone. I was diagnosed way back with fibromyalgia and haven't been on any treatment. I suffered some very serious injuries a year after this diagnosis and they sort of took over my life. Now I am as recovered as I will every be from those injuries and it seems like the fibro is getting severe. I have been almost unable to get out of bed because of fatique and a fever for the last three weeks. I have been checked for every infection you can think of but nothing shows up so I am attributing the fever of 102 evening and 100 during the day to the fibro. Anyone elese have this type of sympton. My neck muscles got so tight I had to have intravenous muscle relaxers and pain meds this week. My family doctor is almost no help. Think backwoods, just there to write prescriptions for colds and not much else type of doctor. I need some help. What type of doctor treats fibromyalgia so I can start looking for one. This fatique and pain is slowly driving me crazy. I can't stand how bad it has gotten. Any suggestions?
You need to go to a rheumotologist-they know about fibro. Not sure about the fever . People with fibro take some kind of pain med during the day and something to sleep at night. When I first came down with it, it was in my whole body like you and I was working with 2 small children and getting a divorce. It took a long time for it to become manageable and I went through various meds and treatments until I found some that agreed with me. I didn't like the muscle relaxers. Now I take Tolectin 400 mg 2 times a day and Desyrel for nightime. I take a couple of oyher things that were added later. If you can get some kind of therapy-they put me in a tank-or massage, that might help. that is just awful. I pray you get some help. Mima Oh yeah, Go Red Sox
Mima..I take it from your yeah Red Socks that they won, I was watching and it was 9 to 9 and then I missed the rest of the game..and the news. I am still rooting for the cards...grew up not too far from St. Louis. What is tolectin?
Joanne, hope it al turns out fine....I bet you are so from all of that poking in there!
Spent 3 hours getting the garage ready for winter but still not done, we have DH's side to do yet...got all my pots emptied out and stored finnally. Over 50 pots..........I think I need to cut back!
Wow. Maybe teaching causes fibromyalgia! One of my friends had to quit teaching because of it a few years ago. I am glad that I'm getting close to retirement.
Moonwitch, my family doctor referred me to a rheumatologist. That's how I was finally diagnosed. The family doctor ran tests, and then the other doctor ran even more. The neck muscles aching sounds so familiar. I've not had any problems with fever lately, but last spring before I was diagnosed, I was running a fever every evening for a few weeks. Hey, I'm in Ohio, we are almost neighbors!
Candice, I love Garfield. I have quite a few posters and figures in my classroom.
Tolectin is Tolmetin, a NSAID kind of pill and it works for me. When I was taking a course in the summer, I was carrying extremely heavy things to the class and that's when it got bad. I had a touch of it before. What do you teach, tammy. I was in elementary. Hope you are getting stronger Joanne. We watched the Patriots win yesterday and a little of the game but I went to bed. Then I put the computer on the minute I get up to see the score. Now we only have to win 2 more. But your yard looks gorgeous Candice. I try to plant perrenials so I don't have to take them in. Mima
Welcome to both Tammy and Moonwitch. Sorry to have disappeared for so long, but things were not going the best they could have been. Friend passed away, brother had heartattack, then another friend in hospital with cancer, and finally, something happy, my son got married. They had a small wedding, but it was nice. The only problem was the weather. It chose Oct. 16 to SNOW!!!! The roads were not good and it snowed all day. This was early, even for here.
Tammy, a Physiatrist is a great Dr. to go to, if you have one near you. He is the most understanding Dr. He is a Dr. of Rehabilitation and deals with people in pain all the time. Several people I know go to this type of Dr. and have had good results.
Moonwitch, you need to get to somebody, that is for sure. You probably have CFS along with FM.
I belong to another board and we are very lucky. We actually have a woman who was a research scientist and she has been doing all kinds of info hunting on Lymes Disease. She, herself was so bad she was bedridden a lot of the time, but found the right Dr. that deals with Lymes and was diagnosed and started on a proper treatment, and is now so much better. Both her kids have the same thing. So, if you live in an area where Ticks are prominent, you might want to get tested. There is a special Lab that she recommends you send your samples to be tested. I will try find it and post it here. It appears that a lot of people who have Lymes get misdiagnosed with FM and the treatment just doesn't work.
Meme - hope your foot is getting a little better each day.
Candice - well, at least you are now done with the pots for a few months.
Joanne - I have been thinking about you each day, and I hope that this week will find you feeling a whole lot better.
Mima - hope you are feeling better as well.
My gd came on Saturday and we were playin in bed Sunday morning, when her finger connected with my eyeball. Gosh it hurt. Ended up going to ER to see what the problem was. The eyeball was scrathed and had a little gouge in it, so he gave me Voltaren Drops and an antibiotic drop, and I am wearing a patch for a couple of days. If does feel a little better this morning, thankfully.
Everybody have a good day.
Last edited by Happy Canuk; 10-25-2004 at 12:00 PM.
Foot's not getting any better. Hurts like the dickens! I still think it's broken.
It's good to see new people coming in. Hi Moonwitch and welcome to our group. I don't run a temp very often but I do now and then and my skin gets hot to the touch quite often. But because my blood is so low, my temp is usually below normal. Have you ever had your sed. rate taken? Mine stays pretty high.
I used to teach school, also. I was a substitute teacher for years and years ... almost every day - plus I've taught private piano for almost 30 years now. Before all that, I was a secretary. Sometimes my shoulders and neck will get so tight I think the muscles are actually going to break!
Hope everyone else gets to feeling better and has a good week. It's supposed to rain here after tomorrow. UGH! Kaylyn will be SEVEN Thursday. I can't believe it!!! (She has about 3 teeth missing.) I'm going to try to take her shopping for her BD Friday night (if I can walk). I had Jenna and Ross over the weekend and Jenna has a loose tooth, too ... so guess that's started already. I hate to see her loose her teeth ... she's so pretty! ('Course, Kaylyn's pretty, too!!! ... But then Meme's prejudice ...)
They are pretty!!! Having my hair cut and frosted today so I will be pretty. But at 66, that's as good as you get. Snow!!!!You have been busy, Anne. Right about lyme disease-I had a friend who was misdiagnosed. It's finally going to be sunny today. I was wheezing yedterday but from going in the attic to get a bunch of stuff out for the flea market at Brad's church. Can't go up there today. Almost done-it's taken me 2 and a half years to get rid of stuff that was his deceased wife's. She was very sick before she died. Anyhow, I went tutoring and my special ed student wouldn't do any work. And he wouldn't sign a contract that he would work. that's after his teacher was called for his homework but he didn't have the books with him, Frustrating. We will see if he's there next week-The director wants so bad to help him but....Anyone find a flu shot. My doc doesn't have any. Mima
OK ... hear ye hear ye ... litterally! You all have been wanting to 'hear' me play ... well now's your chance. Go to: http://www.memeart.com/Fear.html and turn your speakers up. I am playing the song, "He's In The Midst" that is playing on that site. It's an electric piano and I'm just chording the left hand - more like an organ... not exactly my 'style' (like ... all over the keyboard) but, it's the best I can do for the 'net. I got soooo mad at my husband. I occasionally use that electric piano to record a song I can't find on the internet already recorded to put on a devotion. So a friend wanted to take it to church and leave it to play and hubby told him he could without asking me first. So now it's at church and I can't use it to record ... which was the only reason I spent $800 on it in the first place. I'm going to tell him if he can't figure some way to get it back here he can just fork out another eight hundred bucks and buy me another one!!!
As soon as I can put volume on, I will listen. I have to stay out of the attic-too much wheezing. I need a gas mask to protect me from the dust. I ahd my hair frosted yesterday-came out good. We are going to Brad's 45th high school reunion so I ahve to look good. Don't want people thinking he married an old lady. I may have to stay up and watch the Red Sox since they won 3 games. I'll see how they are doing at bedtime. Going to Bible Study today and a meeting tonight. What a good life. Brad is still working at the church, finishing up a new oil burner. Bye for now. Mima
Meme- That was soooo nice..I'll show it to family members who come around..
Mima- It is cooler outside than in the house.Really a nice day!
I am sorry that I am not on very much.. I am still not feeling really good..I need some motivation to get going..The Dr. said it would be like this,but, I didn't give it a thought. I thought I would bounce right back.I did catch up my ironing yesterday. Sitting .I went to the mall with my SIL a couple days ago. 3 stores was my limit..I had to sit down and rest in between. I didn't say anything. She was doing a nice thing for me.. She is a great gal.. They are only down for a couple plus more weeks and then back to AZ.I will miss them..
Hope everyone is well...Joanne
No sleep today and yesterday we got the oven fixed so I got it all ceaned up, went for a hair cut ( too short again) and then off shopping and it was rainy and windy the whole time. Now I am very tired......baked some ham and potatoes in my fresh cleaned oven! So hope I can sleep today.
Happy..how is the yeast thing and do you have pain with yours too?.......that is so annoying! Sorry for all your stress and bad news but happy for your son..does that mean new grandkids soon? Do you look like a pirate with your patch?
Mima..I do not claim the Cardinals now...boy what a disapointment!
My hairstylist husband was going to my same doc, the one that said I was depressed (NOT) .....and he told her husband the same thing but added he was an alcoholic..he has fibro due a car accident and lives with chronic pain. he ahs not been back to him and sees someone else!
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I'm going to try to take her shopping for her BD Friday night (if I can walk). I had Jenna and Ross over the weekend and Jenna has a loose tooth, too ... so guess that's started already. I hate to see her loose her teeth ... she's so pretty! ('Course, Kaylyn's pretty, too!!! ... But then Meme's prejudice ...) 
